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Mochatrade
Mochatrade is a New York-based neo-brokerage that lets Indian traders trade perpetual futures on 50+ US stocks (NVDA, TSLA, AAPL), pre-IPO names, indices, commodities and crypto with up to 50x leverage. Users fund in Indian Rupees via UPI, trade on a familiar terminal-style app running on Hyperliquid's onchain infrastructure with non-custodial wallets, and withdraw back to their bank accounts - no US brokerage account or foreign remittance required. Founded in 2026 by three IIT graduates and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 batch) and Pioneer Fund.
Futureswap
Futureswap is a decentralized, non-custodial protocol for leveraged perpetual trading, letting users take long or short positions on crypto assets with leverage while liquidity providers earn fees and token incentives. Built by a small San Francisco team led by founder Derek Alia, it launched on Ethereum in 2020, later moved to Arbitrum and Avalanche for lower-cost transactions, and pioneered an AMM-based design that plugs into pools like Uniswap and Trader Joe. Backed by roughly $13.5M from investors including Ribbit Capital, Framework Ventures, True Ventures and Placeholder, it was governed by the community via its FST token.
dYdX
dYdX is a decentralized trading protocol best known for perpetual futures, where traders take leveraged long and short positions on crypto without handing custody to a centralized exchange. Founded by ex-Coinbase engineer Antonio Juliano in 2017, it evolved from an Ethereum DeFi app into its own sovereign Cosmos appchain (dYdX v4) that runs a high-performance, validator-operated order book settled in USDC. The protocol is governed by the DYDX token and, with the 2025 launch of spot trading, opened access to U.S. traders for the first time.